Italy Leaving 'Coalition' of the Billing-Berlusconi 'Tried to Warn'' Bush

The U.S. must have stopped sending Italy their monthly check. Italian prime minister also states he 'warned' Bush about going to war. Bush, of course, was way too stupid to listen. Of course being 'stupid' includes 80% of the people in this country in the beginning. "Silvio Berlusconi, one of George Bush's closest allies, says he repeatedly tried to talk the US president out of invading Iraq, in comments to be broadcast today. In the television interview, which goes out on the day the Italian prime minister flies to Washington to meet Mr Bush, Mr Berlusconi says he even enlisted the help of the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadafy, in behind-the-scenes efforts to stop America going to war. "I have never been convinced war was the best way to succeed in making a country democratic and extract it from an albeit bloody dictatorship," he says. "I tried on several occasions to convince the American president not to wage war."